feat(engine): an audio stream that dies tells its owner, not just the log - #2018
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… serving its device A stream whose device stops looks exactly like one that went quiet: a finished reader thread is indistinguishable from a running one, and stopping the stream still succeeds. `AudioStreamLivenessReport` is the answer in code — cloneable, so the thread that acts on it is never the thread holding the stream — carried by all three arms.
… live one reports nothing The three reader-exit paths and their playback twins are driven through the exit value, so all six are reachable with no libasound and no device. The healthy-stream half runs on the null arm in CI, in both directions — without it a signal wired to fire always would pass.
…heir device dies Both do their work on a thread that never holds the stream, so both take the liveness report at open and ask it each turn: the loop leaves, says why once at error, and teardown names the failure beside the counts. The mic still publishes what was captured before the device went.
… and that it allocates once
…ges, and tests CI actually runs - The two device-death messages carried six-space runs mid-sentence, and they are the whole human-readable half of the change. The consts they lived in are gone: each built-in emits its own line at its own callsite, so the log record names the processor that died rather than a shared helper, and the sentence is a plain continued literal. - Splitting AudioStreamFailureRecorder from AudioStreamLivenessReport makes the direction structural: an owner holding a report cannot forge a death it then reads back as real. OnceLock puts first-reason-wins in the type. - The null arm cloned a fresh report per call, satisfying the seam's identity contract only because it had nothing to report. - Four of the new tests ran in no CI job at all: engine-lib tests reach CI through a named slice, and neither linux arm was in it. Named the five deviceless ones individually — their modules also dlopen libasound — and added the two null-arm integration binaries, which is what makes their module docs true. - Clippy: the exit enum tripped enum_variant_names.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAudio streams now expose latched failure reports across ALSA, PipeWire, and silent-null backends. Microphone and speaker workers detect failed devices and stop promptly. Tests and CI gates cover failure propagation, healthy streams, deliberate stops, and deviceless operation. ChangesAudio liveness reporting
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change improves audio-device failure reporting, but the current revision reportedly contains a test-compilation error and can incorrectly report an intentional ALSA stop as a device failure. Merge should wait until those concrete issues are fixed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AudioDeviceBackend
participant AudioStreamLivenessReport
participant MicrophoneSource
participant SpeakerSink
AudioDeviceBackend->>AudioStreamLivenessReport: record first stream failure
AudioStreamLivenessReport-->>MicrophoneSource: expose failure reason
AudioStreamLivenessReport-->>SpeakerSink: expose failure reason
MicrophoneSource->>MicrophoneSource: stop publishing and log error
SpeakerSink->>SpeakerSink: stop draining and log error
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1109-1125: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse explicit names for the new liveness state.
Rename
exittodevice_thread_exitandreasonto a failure-specific name. These names do not identify their state without surrounding context.
runtime/streamlib-engine/src/linux/alsa_audio_device_backend.rs#L1109-L1125: Rename theexitparameter and localreason.runtime/streamlib-engine/src/linux/alsa_audio_device_backend.rs#L1180-L1183: Rename the playback-loopexitbinding.runtime/streamlib-engine/src/linux/alsa_audio_device_backend.rs#L1530-L1533: Rename the capture-loopexitbinding.runtime/streamlib-engine/src/linux/pipewire_audio_device_backend.rs#L522-L539: Rename the callbackreasonparameter and local binding.As per coding guidelines, “Names pass the zero-context test:
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In `@runtime/streamlib-engine/src/core/context/audio_device_backend.rs`:
- Around line 105-109: Rename the public AudioStreamFailureReason::of
constructor to a descriptive name such as from_message, then update every call
site to use the new name; remove the old of symbol entirely without adding a
compatibility shim.
In `@runtime/streamlib-engine/src/linux/alsa_audio_device_backend.rs`:
- Around line 1194-1200: Prioritize a requested stop over reporting
DeviceWentQuiet in both NothingYet handling paths: after reaching the
consecutive-silent-wait threshold, recheck stop_requested and return the normal
stop outcome instead of DeviceWentQuiet when set. Apply this to the anchor site
runtime/streamlib-engine/src/linux/alsa_audio_device_backend.rs lines 1194-1200
and the sibling site
runtime/streamlib-engine/src/linux/alsa_audio_device_backend.rs lines 1541-1547,
preserving DeviceWentQuiet when no stop was requested.
In `@runtime/streamlib-engine/tests/alsa_arm_plays_what_it_is_given.rs`:
- Line 26: Alias each imported assertion helper to avoid colliding with the
module-level wrapper test of the same name, then call the alias from that
wrapper. Apply this consistently at
runtime/streamlib-engine/tests/alsa_arm_plays_what_it_is_given.rs lines 26 and
89-94,
runtime/streamlib-engine/tests/alsa_arm_stamps_blocks_with_the_devices_own_timing.rs
lines 27 and 165-170,
runtime/streamlib-engine/tests/pipewire_arm_plays_what_it_is_given.rs lines 13
and 62-70, and
runtime/streamlib-engine/tests/pipewire_arm_stamps_blocks_with_the_devices_own_timing.rs
lines 17 and 67-75.
In `@runtime/streamlib-media-builtins/src/emitted_log_line_test_support.rs`:
- Line 19: Rename the EmittedLines struct to EmittedLogLineCounts to accurately
describe the stored log-line counters, and update all microphone and speaker
test imports and references to use the new name.
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In `@runtime/streamlib-engine/src/linux/alsa_audio_device_backend.rs`:
- Around line 1109-1125: Use explicit liveness-state names throughout the
affected callbacks and loops: in
runtime/streamlib-engine/src/linux/alsa_audio_device_backend.rs lines 1109-1125
rename the exit parameter to device_thread_exit and reason to a failure-specific
name; apply corresponding explicit names to the playback-loop binding at lines
1180-1183 and capture-loop binding at lines 1530-1533. In
runtime/streamlib-engine/src/linux/pipewire_audio_device_backend.rs lines
522-539, rename the callback reason parameter and local binding to
failure-specific names, updating all references while preserving behavior.
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…ice failure The wait blocks for up to 200 ms, so a stop set during it was counted as silence and reported as the device going quiet — breaking the one clause the seam turns on. Both transfer loops now judge through one function, and the new test rides the CI slice like the rest. Also renames EmittedLines to EmittedLogLineCounts: it holds counts, not lines.
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…edia I/O and archive (#2020) Every ticket of the change is merged: #1988 (the AudioBlock bag, PR #1995), #1989 (the device seam and the null backend, PR #1997), #1998 (the loopback fixture, PR #2001), #2002 (per-processor tap verification, PR #2003), #2004 (the unconnected-output log storm, PR #2005), #1990 (the PipeWire arm, PR #2008), #1991 (the ALSA arm, PR #2010), #1992 (SpeakerSink, PR #2013), #1993 (the removals, PR #2016), #1999 (/verify-audio, PR #2017) and #2012 (stream death reaches its owner, PR #2018) — the last landing 2026-08-28, the archive date. The REMOVED gate is clean at the archived path: 7 bullets, none referenced and none on disk. Eleven DECIDED entries fold into §Media I/O. Six are new — the device seam as one engine primitive, runtime symbol binding, the SPA shim that calls nothing, vendored headers, the unweakened portability gate, and the four AudioBlock entries (wire contract, msgpack bin, the Python cast, the zero-copy claim stated as a claim about the cast, and the harness bin-decode fix). Five existing [audio-subsystem] entries are sharpened in place and gain their SHIPPED citations: the backend chain gains "chosen by opening, not by loading" and the named-device raise; the pacing entry gains the clock starting only when something needs it; A/V sync, the data model and the two built-ins gain theirs. The built-ins entry cites partially — conditioning and immediate cancel are a later rung, and the citation says so. The section stays IN-FLIGHT rather than flipping to SHIPPED: its audio-plugins OPEN entry is still live, and a section ships only when it holds no OPEN. Only the (→ dlopen-audio-backend-and-audio-blocks) pointer goes. #2012 was a follow-up filed during implementation, not part of the approved delta, so it folds into the device-seam entry rather than becoming a plan entry of its own. Every verify marker was run before it was written, on this rig with the wheel rebuilt first: 20 engine and media-builtins tests pass, the PipeWire and ALSA arms pass their hardware tier against a live daemon and /dev/snd (13 tests that otherwise skip), and 29 wheel tests pass. readelf -d on the rebuilt _engine.abi3.so names exactly the five permitted host libraries — the design's own pass/fail, proven rather than asserted. The diagram gains the vendored-shim and DT_NEEDED clause on the media node, and the previously unlabelled media → engine edge now carries the seam and the device-stamping rule. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
A stream whose device stops looked exactly like one that had gone quiet. A finished reader thread
is indistinguishable from a running one, the stream still believed its device was running, and
stop_deliveringjoined the dead thread and reported success — so aMicrophoneSourcewent onbelieving it held a working microphone, and nothing above it could notice, retry, or fail.
The seam now answers the question in code.
AudioStreamLivenessReportis minted with a stream,carried by all three arms in both directions, and read off a clone — because the thread that has
to act on the answer is never the one holding the stream.
The shape: a pollable failure, not an error hand-off. Both were live in the ticket. The
callback shape puts a second "must not block, must not re-enter" contract on a seam where the
PipeWire arm would deliver it under the thread-loop lock — and the one natural reaction to
"your device died", calling
stop_delivering(), takes that very lock. A poll adds no such trap,and both owners already have a loop that wakes regularly. The push that does exist stops inside
the PipeWire arm: the shim's failure callback records into the report and the seam stays pollable.
(
Option<Error>was not available either way —Erroris notClone, and a poll answersrepeatedly.)
Per arm:
AlsaDeviceThreadExitinstead of logging wherethey stop, so the one judgement that matters (a failure, or the stop the owner asked for) is made
once for both directions — and is reachable by a test on a machine with no
libasound.PW_STREAM_STATE_ERRORintostream_failedand nothingread it after open. It gains a failure hand-off, installed at open and retired at close under the
loop lock, plus first-reason-wins so a stream on its way down reports its cause rather than its
teardown.
it, and says so for the whole of its life. That is the arm's part of the contract, asserted.
MicrophoneSourceandSpeakerSinkeach take the report at open, ask it once per turn of theirown worker loop, say why once at
error!, and leave — the microphone still publishing what thedevice captured before it went. Teardown names the failure beside the counts, so a run that ended
early and a run that ended are no longer the same handful of numbers.
Closes
Closes #2012
Exit criteria
logs — capture and playback alike.
Test plan
Unit, no hardware:
AudioStreamLivenessReport— a fresh report is live; a failure recorded through one clone isread through another; the first reason recorded is the one kept.
record_an_alsa_device_thread_exitover every exit an ALSA transfer thread has, in bothdirections: the requested stop records nothing, and each of the three failures records a reason
naming both what happened and which direction it came from. These are the reader-exit paths the
ticket names — two need hardware that has begun failing and the third a
snd_pcm_recoverthatcannot, so they are driven through the exit value.
NULLreason (whichstate_changedis allowed to pass) is still reported as a failure.ask_whether_the_device_is_still_servingboth ways.interval, leaves on the device's account rather than by being told to stop, and says it once at
error. Each has a healthy-device twin that must not leave — without it the signal could be
wired to fire always and still pass.
Arm contract suites (
audio_arm_timestamp_contract,audio_arm_playback_contract) gain"a live stream reports no failure and neither does a stopped one", inherited by all three arms.
The null arm runs it in CI in both directions;
silent_null_arm_captures_without_ever_dying.rsis new, because the capture suite previously had no CI-visible arm at all.
Gates:
cargo fmt --all --check,cargo clippy --workspace --exclude streamlib-adapter-skia --no-deps,cargo xtask check-all-source-gates,cargo test -p xtask(255), the CI-definedengine lib subset (45),
-p streamlib-media-builtins --lib(81), and all six audio armintegration binaries.
Rig (this environment had a real
/dev/sndand a live PipeWire session): the four audio-tierarm binaries ran for real rather than skipping — 13 passed — so the new liveness assertions are
proven against actual devices, not only the null arm. Plus the through-engine loopback below.
Cross-compile:
cargo check --target aarch64-apple-darwincould not be run — it dies iniceoryx2-pal-posix's build script, which needs macOS'slibproc.hvia bindgen and finds no SDKhere. Verified identical on unmodified
origin/mainin a scratch worktree, so it is anenvironment gap rather than anything in this diff, and the build never reaches our code. The
Apple path is untouched regardless: everything new is either platform-agnostic
(
core/context/) or already underlinux/.Audio Verification Report
verify_audio_loopback.shThe wheel venv's
_engine.abi3.sowas five hours stale, so it was rebuilt (maturin develop)before the run — otherwise the loopback would have measured the pre-change engine and returned an
unearned green.
Measured
verdict: PASSfailed: nonefundamental_hz440.0 ·amplitude0.5 ·thd_percent0.001482917of482917symbol_interval_error_ms0.0 (worst1->7) ·cumulative_interval_error_ms0.0missing_loud_audio_ms-0.0 ·silent_stretch_ms0.2 ·emptiest_regiontonebags_dropped_by_the_tap0 ·block_continuity_error_ms0.0 ·frame_versus_block_timestamp_error_ns0pw13yh0yi3ho8bw60yf1q9rgsappears 19times in this run's
node.logSpectrogram
/tmp/streamlib-audio-loopback-iPNXD6/spectrogram.pngthe capture — the 440 Hz tone — followed by six evenly spaced symbol stacks, each a clean pair
of horizontal segments at two distinct frequencies. No vertical broadband stripe cuts the tone
and no notch interrupts it, so no splice and no hole; the remaining half of the frame is the
uniform noise floor after the 2.2 s signal inside a 5.0 s capture.
The new mechanism fired on this run, and it was a true positive
Both built-ins logged their device-death line during shutdown, with
reason="the PipeWire stream stopped serving its device: target not found", and both teardownlines carried the failure. That is the fixture's own
EXITtrap: it signals the node and thendestroys the virtual sink, so the target really is removed while the streams are still connected.
This is the change working, not noise. The same
PW_STREAM_STATE_ERRORwas reachingstream_failedbefore this branch and being read by nobody — making it visible is the ticket.It also happens to be the only end-to-end proof in the change that the PipeWire arm's death path
fires against a real daemon, which no unit test reaches. Playback and capture were long finished
when it fired (
played_blocks378,published_blocks267,dropped_blocks0) and the signalverdict is unaffected. A normal shutdown destroys no device node, and
closeretires the hand-offunder the loop lock, so an ordinary app exit logs nothing.
Outcome
Notes for owner
Non-blocking, no tickets filed.
Scope covers both directions, on the ticket's own instruction. feat(engine): a capture stream that dies tells its owner, not just the log #2012 was written expecting
to land before feat(engine): SpeakerSink — playback on every arm, proved by a known-signal loopback #1992; feat(engine): SpeakerSink — playback on every arm, proved by a known-signal loopback #1992 shipped first (PR feat(engine): SpeakerSink — playback on every arm, proved by a known-signal loopback #2013), and the ticket says in as many words that
reversing the order "costs a retrofit across both stream types rather than one". The ALSA writer
thread has the identical three exit paths as its reader, and the PipeWire shim's error state is
direction-blind. The ticket body has been corrected to say so.
An application still cannot see this, only a Rust stream owner can. The seam answers for
MicrophoneSource;MicrophoneSourceanswers with a log line, because it has no other channel —ProcessorMetricsis never inserted on any node, and the change file defers wiring it as acontrol-plane surface question of its own. So a Python processor downstream of a dead microphone
still infers it from a timestamp gap. That is the next honest rung, not a gap in this one.
The report is sticky per stream, deliberately. A stream that died reports the death for the
rest of its life, including after
stop_delivering— being told to stop never creates afailure, and it seemed wrong to let it erase one. Nothing in the tree restarts a stream after a
death; if a retry rung lands,
start_delivering_toshould mint a fresh report rather thaninherit the old one.
Two CI lists were edited. Pre-review, four of the new tests ran in no CI job: engine-lib
tests reach CI through a named slice in
test.yml, mirrored inxtask/src/main.rs, andneither
linuxarm was in it — while the only engine--testCI runs isattribute_macro_test, so the new integration binary's module doc claimed a coverage that didnot exist. The five deviceless arm tests are now named individually (their modules also hold
tests that dlopen libasound and walk a real PCM), and both null-arm integration binaries are
invoked. The pre-existing
silent_null_arm_plays_what_it_is_given.rsmade the same"checked nowhere CI can see" claim and was also unrun; it rides along, since my change was
about to double the false claim.
EmittedLines/CountingTracingSubscribermoved out ofmicrophone_source.rsintoemitted_log_line_test_support.rs, following themsgpack_wire_test_support.rspattern, so thespeaker's line-count assertion does not copy the double.
Pre-existing, untouched: the ALSA arm's stop-check-and-readiness-match preamble is now
structurally identical in the reader and the writer. The duplication predates this change (as
log + returnin each); this branch changed both copies in lockstep, which is themust-change-together smell. Collapsing it is a wash on line count and I left it — recording it
so it is a decision rather than an oversight.
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